Kamay Botany Bay
with Jan Hendrix
2020
HD Video.
Sound, colour, 10 minutes 30 seconds
The record of an unnatural place, Botany Bay, (KAMAY) the confabulations of the digital image are further extended by the digital image in movement, encountered in sequence form as a film or video movie. The multi-framed moving image document of the contemporary Kamay as recorded during 2019, is a representation of an unnatural place a man-made place, where the natural world is partially retained as a memorial to the incursion of strangers in1770 onto aboriginal lands of the Yuin nation; In the film commissioned for the exhibition Paradise Lost*, Kamay is shown in a fragmented but regimented form, the screen area divided by 4 separate images, avoiding the convention of a specific sequence order of shots; a narrative is not imposed but an opportunity presented to the viewer to select which image in movement to inspect and in what order ; thus the narrative is self-made by each viewer, within the curatorial framework and framing, duration colour and sound, structured by the film makers.
Paradise Lost, commissioned by Kew Gardens Gallery, London, UK